(Scott) does love Texas and he does love his mom. |
At least 90 percent of registered voters will not vote. There's probably only going to be a 10 percent turnout. We've already got 12 million registered voters who can sign our petition, and we have a number of people from Montgomery County who have pledged support. |
He should either be running for office or be an impartial elections officer and not try to fool the voters that he can be both. |
It's hard enough running as an independent in this state. |
It's not fair; we don't want people to give up their right to vote for local officials. We're telling them to vote. |
She's a former Longhorn, and I'm one of her sons. Sign for my mom. |
The election code says the Election Day is from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. His chief attorney said 7 p.m. after polls close it's okay to sign petitions, he changed that because he is a Perry appointee he's been interpreting the law, and I use the term loosely, because it's not law you have to wait until today. |
The secretary of state and Rick Perry must be very afraid to throw up all the roadblocks they're attempting to throw up against us which are both unlawful and unconstitutional. The partisan secretary of state is doing all he can to deny the people a real choice for change in November. The governor certainly is calling the shots. |
They make it very difficult for an Independent candidate, which may explain why its been so long since we've had one. |
They're going to go door to door. They're going to go business to business. They're hanging out on street corners. We don't want to squeak by in this petition drive. We want to be in overdrive. |
This guy has gone overboard in throwing up partisan roadblocks. |
We want to keep getting them. We don't want to take the wind out of the sails. We're in very good shape. But we're going to keep getting them. |
We're going to have every 'i' dotted and every 't' crossed. They're going to look for any excuse to throw out any signatures, so we think we're going to have more than enough. |
We're putting the petition on our Web site by the end of the week. We're having a fight with the Secretary of State because we want to start (gathering signatures) at 7 p.m. (Tuesday) after the polls close. |